Improvement in glove-envelopes



Patented Aug 6,1872.

D. FOSTER. Glove-Envelopes.

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UNITED STATES PATENT CEEICE.

ANDREW D. FOSTER, OF SAYVILLE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN GLOVE-ENVELOPES.

' specification arming pm of Leners Parent No. 130,205, ama Aug-ust e, 1872.

f an improved device for preserving kid gloves from becoming spotted, soiled, faded, mildewed, or otherwise injured while in the hands of the retailer and in the hands of the purchaser, and not in use; and it consists in the preserver constructed as hereinafter more fully described.

A represents one of my improved kid-glove preservers, which is made in the form of a long narrow envelope, with the flap at one end left loose for the insertion and removal of the gloves. The length and breadth of the preserverfA should correspond with the size of the gloves to be inserted in it. In the body of the preserver A is formed a small flap, a', so that by turning up the said flap a the color of the gloves can be seen by the purchaser or user in making a selection. Upon the face of the preserver A is designed to be lprinted the tents, as described.

name, or the name and trade-mark, of the manufacturer of the inelosed gloves, the number or size of the gloves, and` any other desired information concerning or description of the gloves. The preserver may also bear the name and address or business-card of the dealer. By this means the gloves will be kept from being injured by the air and from being handled, and will thus be preserved from being mildewed, spotted, stained, faded, or

otherwise injured, which causes, when they gloves are kept in the ordinary manner, often entail great loss upon retail dealers and great annoyance to the users. y Having thus described my invention, I elain as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentn A As a new article of manufacture, an envelope, A, for gloves, having a Hap, af, on its face to expose the color and qualit-y of the con- ANDREW D. FOSTER.

Vitnesses:

JAMES T. GRAHAM, T. B. MosnER. 

